Wow, it's almost as if the game being made by Americans accidentally highlighted the imperialist and oppressive elements of samurai culture without a complete lack of criticism towards it. Even Kurosawa would be disappointed (typically featured the peasants and poor samurai as the primary heroes/survivors in his jidaigeki), Kobayashi is just laughing from the grave)
Really though, I guess we haven't learned from Spec Ops: The Line
Harakiri has the best dramatic tension and samurai duels of anything in the chambara genre. Unsurpassed film.
And it is unsurpassed in its stark as fuck absurdist portrayal of budshido's rigidity.
No question. Kobayashi was a real one.
No other director would have dared to do The Human Condition as a 10+hr movie in post-war Japan
I still haven't watched The Human Condition. Waiting for Criterion to do a Blu-ray release, but my resolve falters just a bit more each year. Eventually might give and make a weekend of it.
If you can stand to watch it without special features, I uploaded it here
Ooohhhh, is this an HD rip or is it just from DVDs?
I believe they are HD rips, not sure where from but 1080p x264
Oh sweet. Will download tonight then, that's exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks comrade!